Oracle VM VirtualBox: Ticket #5430: Large number of Segfaults in VBoxSVChttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430
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I have started getting a serious number of segfaults from VBoxSVC on a RHEL5.4 (x86_64) running version 3.0.10 of VBox. The segfaults happened now and then with 3.0.4 but they are happening at greater occurrence in 3.0.10. Errors are happening from a automated management script which is generally running a list vms command or a showvminfo command.
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Example segfaults.
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<pre class="wiki">VBoxSVC[13776]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000000000000 rsp 000000004182fdd8 error 14
VBoxSVC[18613] trap invalid opcode rip:12979ac0 rsp:40244dd8 error:0
VBoxSVC[28408] general protection rip:bb8f5b1 rsp:4148bea8 error:0
VBoxSVC[22764]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002b0b8227955c rsp 0000000040908de0 error 4
VBoxSVC[19399]: segfault at 0000000000000079 rip 00000035308fe794 rsp 0000000040fd6dd8 error 6
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Sometimes the output of VBoxManage list vms generates the output "ERROR: 0 bytes read from child process" after the logo output and before listing the vms which may be related. No VMs are running at that time so no VBox.log files.
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Trac 0.12frankMon, 09 Nov 2009 10:21:12 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:1
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:1
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A VBox.log file of such a session is missing. If you could provide a <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump"><span class="icon"> </span>core dump</a> this would help us debugging. If you can provide one, please contact me via frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ sun _dot_ com, then I can tell you a server for the upload.
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TicketmjlucasMon, 09 Nov 2009 10:34:11 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:2
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:2
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I have enabled coredumps but as of yet none have been generated. I will update this ticket once I can get one out. As I said there are no VMs running just VBoxManage doing some queries which are triggering the crash.
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TicketfrankFri, 26 Mar 2010 13:32:44 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:3
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:3
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Could you check if VBox 3.1.6 fixes your problem by chance?
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TicketfrankFri, 11 Jun 2010 11:38:10 GMTstatus changed; resolution sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:4
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5430#comment:4
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changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em>
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<li><strong>resolution</strong>
set to <em>fixed</em>
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No response, closing.
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